Forever Bound
Chapter 6, An Epic, A Comedy, and A Tragedy.
Author's Notes: Okay people, I would like to confirm that Nabiki did *NOT* bring Akane and Ranma to Nerima. They came for different reasons, Akane came because Kasumi had told her Soun was dying and Ranma because...*HUSH!!* Okay folks, I'm not gonna tell you, but that is how it was, Nabiki had nothing to do with Ranma and Akane coming to Nerima, it was completely coincidental...or was it? *I SAID HUSH!!*. Fine, just keep reading and I hope you like it.
Disclaimers: As all Ranma 1/2 fans know, Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. The play in this story called Beauty is based on a book called Beauty by Robin Mckinley{Great Novel}.
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Ranma moved silently up to one of the large balconies of the Auditorium and sat down on one of the red velvet chairs getting a full view of the stage. As more people came up to the balcony, Ranma adjusted the white mask that covered half of his face. Ranma suddenly heard a wail from below on the ground floor and so he looked down. Ranma shook slightly in happiness at seeing the next group of people. Soun was walking into the Auditorium with Kasumi by his side trying to comfort him. Tofu walked next to her looking appearing just as calm and patient as Kasumi was. Behind them walked Nabiki with her right arm wrapped around Kuno's left arm. Ranma gasped and he found it hard to breathe at seeing the next couple. In walked Genma and Nodoka. Genma appeared uncomftorble with his Tuxedo and pulled at the bow hoping it would loosen it's hold on his neck. Nodoka saw this and gave him a full view of her katana. Genma dropped his hands as if they were on fire.
Behind the Saotomes was a weak Ukyo being held by, who Ranma guessed, Shiro her husband. Ukyo was cooing at a little bundle in her arms and Ranma knew that was her new-born child. Ranma smiled happily under his mask at the thought of his life-long best friend getting married, having children, and finding happiness. His heart suddenly quenched again in rememberence of Nabiki's words "'...so Ukyo is suddenly Ucchan all of a sudden, is she Ranma? Do you still think your still her Ran-chan though?"' *No,* Ranma thought *Ukyo has already forgiven me, I mean she didn't try to kill me when she found out I was her driver* Yet his mind wasn't convinced, after all she was in excrutiating pain at the moment and probably had her other things on her mind then beating up her ex-fiancee.
In came Ryoga and Akari holding each other fondly. Ranma grin grew at the sight of his ex-rival and best friend. Ranma was still surprised Ryoga kept that yellow-brown bandana, but then again knowing Ryoga, he would probably keep that until he was 90. Akari seemed happier then before Ranma last saw her and Ranma's sharp senses picked up on Akari's diamond ring. Ranma internally smiled knowing his best friend was happy, but also relieved knowing that Ryoga had not married Akane.
Ranma looked down again and saw two little girls holding hands to a little boy trailing behind the adults. They were no more then six, Ranma had guessed. The little boy wore glasses to big for him and his shining light grey-brown eyes gave him a super kawaii expression. Ranma knew without asking that this was Kasumi and Tofu's son. Next to the boy, to his right, stood a kawaii girl with large brown eyes and silky brown hair to her waist giving her an adult yet child-like innocence, but the one to the left of the boy really held Ranma's attention. The girl to the left of Tofu's son was the cutest of them all with large greyish green eyes and fairytale-like blond hair that could have passed for both the most luxious brown or goldest yellow. Something about the girl reminded Ranma of someone although Ranma saw no physical feature on her that could explain this.
The little girl gave Ranma a sense of deja vu over and over again as she bounced happily beside the little boy, showing a rare interest to the oncoming play. Ranma guessed the little girl was a friend of the other kids, but something about her told him he was missing a big piece to the puzzle. Ranma saw everyone take a seat near the front of the theater and he watched as the lights dimmed and everyone hushed and quieted. *Time for the show...*
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Ranma gasped as he saw Akane walk onto the stage. He could feel the familiar dizziness. *Ohmygoodness...breathe, Ranma...breathe...she doesn't look that beautiful...who am I kiddin, she looks better then beautiful....* In truth Akane did look beyond beautiful. Her blue-black hair was surrounding her like a curtain teasing the eye and her long form-hugging dress made the image so perfect she could have passed for a medieval princess. Ranma watched intently, as did everyone else, as Akane played the role of Beauty flawlessly except for one mishap, but no one caught on except Ranma.
Things went fine until Beauty was supposed to kiss Beast after he became human. A large blue light flashed through the Auditorium and everyone, including the cast thought, *Wow! The lighting really is incredible!...And I thought Mission Impossible had great effects...* The people on Ranma's balcony however blinked for a second before fighting each other to scramble down the stairs and away from the theater. Ranma didn't notice as he continued to glow a faint blue.
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Akane stood holding hands with the rest of the cast as they bowed and accepted applause from the audience. She wasn't nervous about the play, after all it wasn't her first time in a play. Many people gave her and the rest of the cast roses of all sorts of different colors. Akane suddenly sensed something coming her way. She looked up just in time to catch a single yellow, thornless, longstemmed rose. Akane looked up and saw no one. For some reason, the rose meant more then the others did and Akane held it to her chest. *What's happening to me? I'm not falling for some stranger just because he threw me a pretty flower, am I?...But the flower does smell nice...it smells like...*
Before Akane could ponder on that thought for long she saw her family rush towards her. Akane picked up Belldandy as she ran towards her.
"You were magnificent, Akane," Dr.Tofu said as the others nodded.
"Ditto," Ukyo said as everyone laughed. That sudden blue flash of life had shook up everyone. The Martial Artists knew it wasn't light, but an aura...a very angry aura.
"Mommy, what was that pretty blue light and why did it make me feel all warm?" Belldandy said making everyone face the truth.
"I think...Bell, do you remember when Mommy told you all the stories of the bad guys, Mommy, your Auntie Ukyo and Uncle Ryoga fought? Well, we think that aura is another bad guy." *A very powerful bad guy...* ran through all their minds.
"Don't worry mommy, Koko, Fufu, and me will protect all of you, won't we?" Belldandy asked confidentally. "Yeah!" the other two shouted.
"And we won't let that bad guy to hurt Tenchi, either Mama," Ryoko said as Ukyo hugged her. All the others smiled at the chilren's innocence and they all moved off of the stage ready on facing whatever shot that powerful aura out, little did they know, this was a battle they could not win.
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Akane fell onto her bed, tired and happy...but not content. Akane got up and dug deep in her changing bag for a single yellow rose. Oddly, the rose was not squashed and Akane stared at it as she fell onto her bed again. Akane hugged it and thought as she drifted off *The rose and curse brought Beauty and Beast closer together, too bad love isn't eternal ,curses don't exist and wonderful heroes don't go depending on roses...* It probably was a good thing Akane's mind was in a jumble and too tired to think straight, otherwise she might have remembered that life was full of surprises and somewhere in Nerima lay a certain pig-tailed Martial Artist with a unique curse.
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Author's Notes: *Holds up hands* I know, I know this chapter is shorter then the others, but I'll write faster. Send all comments and critisism to silverflame_maiden@hotmail.com.
Chapter 6, An Epic, A Comedy, and A Tragedy.
Author's Notes: Okay people, I would like to confirm that Nabiki did *NOT* bring Akane and Ranma to Nerima. They came for different reasons, Akane came because Kasumi had told her Soun was dying and Ranma because...*HUSH!!* Okay folks, I'm not gonna tell you, but that is how it was, Nabiki had nothing to do with Ranma and Akane coming to Nerima, it was completely coincidental...or was it? *I SAID HUSH!!*. Fine, just keep reading and I hope you like it.
Disclaimers: As all Ranma 1/2 fans know, Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. The play in this story called Beauty is based on a book called Beauty by Robin Mckinley{Great Novel}.
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Ranma moved silently up to one of the large balconies of the Auditorium and sat down on one of the red velvet chairs getting a full view of the stage. As more people came up to the balcony, Ranma adjusted the white mask that covered half of his face. Ranma suddenly heard a wail from below on the ground floor and so he looked down. Ranma shook slightly in happiness at seeing the next group of people. Soun was walking into the Auditorium with Kasumi by his side trying to comfort him. Tofu walked next to her looking appearing just as calm and patient as Kasumi was. Behind them walked Nabiki with her right arm wrapped around Kuno's left arm. Ranma gasped and he found it hard to breathe at seeing the next couple. In walked Genma and Nodoka. Genma appeared uncomftorble with his Tuxedo and pulled at the bow hoping it would loosen it's hold on his neck. Nodoka saw this and gave him a full view of her katana. Genma dropped his hands as if they were on fire.
Behind the Saotomes was a weak Ukyo being held by, who Ranma guessed, Shiro her husband. Ukyo was cooing at a little bundle in her arms and Ranma knew that was her new-born child. Ranma smiled happily under his mask at the thought of his life-long best friend getting married, having children, and finding happiness. His heart suddenly quenched again in rememberence of Nabiki's words "'...so Ukyo is suddenly Ucchan all of a sudden, is she Ranma? Do you still think your still her Ran-chan though?"' *No,* Ranma thought *Ukyo has already forgiven me, I mean she didn't try to kill me when she found out I was her driver* Yet his mind wasn't convinced, after all she was in excrutiating pain at the moment and probably had her other things on her mind then beating up her ex-fiancee.
In came Ryoga and Akari holding each other fondly. Ranma grin grew at the sight of his ex-rival and best friend. Ranma was still surprised Ryoga kept that yellow-brown bandana, but then again knowing Ryoga, he would probably keep that until he was 90. Akari seemed happier then before Ranma last saw her and Ranma's sharp senses picked up on Akari's diamond ring. Ranma internally smiled knowing his best friend was happy, but also relieved knowing that Ryoga had not married Akane.
Ranma looked down again and saw two little girls holding hands to a little boy trailing behind the adults. They were no more then six, Ranma had guessed. The little boy wore glasses to big for him and his shining light grey-brown eyes gave him a super kawaii expression. Ranma knew without asking that this was Kasumi and Tofu's son. Next to the boy, to his right, stood a kawaii girl with large brown eyes and silky brown hair to her waist giving her an adult yet child-like innocence, but the one to the left of the boy really held Ranma's attention. The girl to the left of Tofu's son was the cutest of them all with large greyish green eyes and fairytale-like blond hair that could have passed for both the most luxious brown or goldest yellow. Something about the girl reminded Ranma of someone although Ranma saw no physical feature on her that could explain this.
The little girl gave Ranma a sense of deja vu over and over again as she bounced happily beside the little boy, showing a rare interest to the oncoming play. Ranma guessed the little girl was a friend of the other kids, but something about her told him he was missing a big piece to the puzzle. Ranma saw everyone take a seat near the front of the theater and he watched as the lights dimmed and everyone hushed and quieted. *Time for the show...*
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Ranma gasped as he saw Akane walk onto the stage. He could feel the familiar dizziness. *Ohmygoodness...breathe, Ranma...breathe...she doesn't look that beautiful...who am I kiddin, she looks better then beautiful....* In truth Akane did look beyond beautiful. Her blue-black hair was surrounding her like a curtain teasing the eye and her long form-hugging dress made the image so perfect she could have passed for a medieval princess. Ranma watched intently, as did everyone else, as Akane played the role of Beauty flawlessly except for one mishap, but no one caught on except Ranma.
Things went fine until Beauty was supposed to kiss Beast after he became human. A large blue light flashed through the Auditorium and everyone, including the cast thought, *Wow! The lighting really is incredible!...And I thought Mission Impossible had great effects...* The people on Ranma's balcony however blinked for a second before fighting each other to scramble down the stairs and away from the theater. Ranma didn't notice as he continued to glow a faint blue.
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Akane stood holding hands with the rest of the cast as they bowed and accepted applause from the audience. She wasn't nervous about the play, after all it wasn't her first time in a play. Many people gave her and the rest of the cast roses of all sorts of different colors. Akane suddenly sensed something coming her way. She looked up just in time to catch a single yellow, thornless, longstemmed rose. Akane looked up and saw no one. For some reason, the rose meant more then the others did and Akane held it to her chest. *What's happening to me? I'm not falling for some stranger just because he threw me a pretty flower, am I?...But the flower does smell nice...it smells like...*
Before Akane could ponder on that thought for long she saw her family rush towards her. Akane picked up Belldandy as she ran towards her.
"You were magnificent, Akane," Dr.Tofu said as the others nodded.
"Ditto," Ukyo said as everyone laughed. That sudden blue flash of life had shook up everyone. The Martial Artists knew it wasn't light, but an aura...a very angry aura.
"Mommy, what was that pretty blue light and why did it make me feel all warm?" Belldandy said making everyone face the truth.
"I think...Bell, do you remember when Mommy told you all the stories of the bad guys, Mommy, your Auntie Ukyo and Uncle Ryoga fought? Well, we think that aura is another bad guy." *A very powerful bad guy...* ran through all their minds.
"Don't worry mommy, Koko, Fufu, and me will protect all of you, won't we?" Belldandy asked confidentally. "Yeah!" the other two shouted.
"And we won't let that bad guy to hurt Tenchi, either Mama," Ryoko said as Ukyo hugged her. All the others smiled at the chilren's innocence and they all moved off of the stage ready on facing whatever shot that powerful aura out, little did they know, this was a battle they could not win.
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Akane fell onto her bed, tired and happy...but not content. Akane got up and dug deep in her changing bag for a single yellow rose. Oddly, the rose was not squashed and Akane stared at it as she fell onto her bed again. Akane hugged it and thought as she drifted off *The rose and curse brought Beauty and Beast closer together, too bad love isn't eternal ,curses don't exist and wonderful heroes don't go depending on roses...* It probably was a good thing Akane's mind was in a jumble and too tired to think straight, otherwise she might have remembered that life was full of surprises and somewhere in Nerima lay a certain pig-tailed Martial Artist with a unique curse.
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Author's Notes: *Holds up hands* I know, I know this chapter is shorter then the others, but I'll write faster. Send all comments and critisism to silverflame_maiden@hotmail.com.